Assistive technologies provide a set of advanced tools that can
improve the quality of life not only for disabled, patients and
elderly but also for healthy people struggling with everyday
actions. After a period of slow but steady scientific progress, this
scientific area seems to be mature for new research and application
breakthroughs. The rapid progress in the development of integrated
micro-mechatronic tools has boosted this process. However, many
problems remain open especially as regards environment perception and
interaction of these technological tools with people. The goal of the
workshop is to give an overview of the state of the art of perception
and interaction methodologies involved in this area with special
attention to aspects related to computer vision and robotics.

The International Workshop on Computer Vision and Robotics
subsidiaries (ACVR) aims to bring together researchers working on
problems of robotics and vision related to developing assistive
technologies. Research papers are solicited in, but not limited to,
the following topics:

* Augmented and Alternative Communication

* Human - Robot Interaction

* Mobility Aids

* Rehabilitation Aids

* Domotic Healthcare

* Technology for Cognition

* Automatic Emotional Hearing

* Activity Monitoring Systems

* Manipulation Aids

* Smart Environments

* Safety and Security

Events

The workshop will be opened with a keynote speech from Andrea
Cavallaro Professor of Multimedia Signal Processing at Queen Mary
University of London (QMUL)

Important Dates
Paper submission: May 15, 2013
Notification to the authors: June 1, 2013
Camera ready copy: June 10, 2013
Workshop: September 10, 2013
Submission Process / Information

The Workshop proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS
series, indexed as peer-reviewed publication in the Web of Science.
The length of the papers is max 8 pages (with references included;
always an even number of pages). Papers will be selected based on
their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of
presentation.

Authors must follow the LNCS guidelines for their paper to be
published by Springer, according to Springer's Information for LNCS
authors.

The submission site is: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ICIAPWS2013/

Organizing Committee

General Chair:
Marco Leo ( CNR - Institute of Optics)
Danilo P. Mandic (Imperial College of London)

Steering Committee:
Cosimo Distante (CNR -Institute of Optics)
David Looney (Imperial College of London)
Annalisa Milella ( CNR - Institute of Intelligent Systems for Automation)

Program Committee:
Salvatore Anzalone (Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris)
Donato Di Paola(CNR -Institute of Intelligent Systems for Automation)
Cem Direkoglu (Dublin City University)
Arcangelo Distante (CNR -Institute of Intelligent Systems for Automation)
Flavio Esposito (Boston University)
Henry Kautz (University of Rochester)
Liliana Lo Presti (Boston University)
Pier Luigi Mazzeo (CNR -Institute of Intelligent Systems for Automation)
Markos Mentzelopoulos (University of Westminster)
Mikel Rodriguez (INRIA/ENS)
Davide Scaramuzza (University of Zurich)
Paolo Spagnolo (CNR -Institute of Intelligent Systems for Automation)